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RN102 3 out of 4 hard drives failed in 2 years
Hi All, New to the communities, but I've had the RN102 (purchased from NETGEAR on Amazon with 2 3TB Seagate (ST3000DM001) drives) since about mid 2013. Long story short, I hadn't set up the notific...
Hi dbreda,
No worries. You'll get a replacement soon.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community
The ST3000DM001 is not a good choice for NAS. BackBlaze recently pulled a couple of thousand of them out of service because they were seeing very high failure rates. Their environment is more demanding than a home NAS, but there are also quite a few bad experiences posted here.
FWIW they are not finding that with the ST4000DM001, just the 3 TB model.
I see no reason at all to use desktop drives in a home NAS. Both Seagate and WDC have suitable NAS purposed drives. Prices are similar to desktop drives, warranties are longer, and I am not seeing a lot of horror stories here on any NAS-purposed drive.
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